Press Release

Detroit + Toronto: Drivers for a Healthy City (a Symposium)8:30 am to 5:30 pm, Oct. 25, the Carlu, TorontoThis Symposium is a chance to reinvigorate discourse, trade, movement, cultural exchange, and investment between two great cities linked by history, industry, and culture.

Entrepreneurs, activists, politicians, city staff, and developers will come together to propose innovative ideas in urban development; to investigate emerging issues in collaborative city building; and to discover opportunities for investment in both Toronto and Detroit.

A range of dynamic speakers will broach topics such as: Detroit 2.0: stabilization and redevelopment outside the downtown core; the rapid redevelopment of derelict historic skyscrapers; creative economies in the post-industrial city; philanthropy, public engagement, poverty, and prosperity in the post-industrial urban economy; and what is in store for Toronto and what kind of city do we want for tomorrow?

Toronto the Good, 2013 (a Detroit-themed Party)6:30 to 11:30 pmThis popular party is thrown each year by ERA Architects and friends (usually in the spring, but this year coinciding with the Symposium). It celebrates Toronto and gives urban-minded people a chance to network and debate Toronto’s history, evolution, and future.

This year’s party will feature delicious hors d’oevres, a Detroit-themed cocktail, and Detroit-inspired music. We expect upwards of 800 guests to join us in the lovely Art Moderne interior of Toronto’s Carlu.